A Call for a Strategic U.S. Approach to the Global Food Crisis

  • Tuesday, Jul 29, 2008
  • In May 2008, in response to the growing global food crisis, CSIS launched a Task Force to assess the rising humanitarian, security, developmental and market impacts of rising food costs and shortages.

    The resulting report argues for modernizing and doubling emergency assistance, elevating rural development and agricultural productivity to be new foreign policy priorities, revising the U.S. approach to biofuels so that fuel and food security objectives are effectively deconflicted, acting on an urgent basis to conclude the Doha Development Round, and creating a strategic U.S. approach to global food security that interlinks approaches to relief, development, energy and trade and that is backed by new robust organizational capacities.

    GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS REPORT


    Introduction to Event through Senator Speeches:
     AUDIO (streaming mp3, 00:38:13) | VIDEO (wmv, 00:38:13)

    Speakers:

    John J. Hamre
    President and CEO, CSIS

    J. Stephen Morrison
    Co-Director
    CSIS Task Force on the Global Food Crisis

    Congressional Co-chairs
    of the CSIS Task Force on the Global Food Crisis:

    Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-IN)

    Senator Robert P. Casey (D-PA)

     

     

     

    AUDIO (streaming mp3, 00:44:39) | VIDEO (wmv, 00:44:39)
     

     

    With Remarks from:

    Henrietta Holsman Fore
    Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
    and Director of United States Foreign Assistance

    Josette Sheeran
    Executive Director
    United Nations World Food Programme

    Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering
    Former U.S. Ambassador and Vice Chairman
    Hills & Company

    Members of the CSIS Task Force on the Global Food Crisis

     

     

     

    Question Reponses and Closing Remarks: AUDIO (streaming mp3, 00:07:04) | VIDEO (wmv, 00:07:04)

     

     

     

     

     

    Programs
    Global Food Security Project, Video Highlights
    Topics
    Food and Water, Global Health, Global Health Policy
    Regions
    Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

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